Essay Rubric

Student name: Maria Belen Segura Castillo Date: July, 30th.

Course: Learning through play
Topic: Bilingual Education
Evaluator: Hilary Ulate Arroyo
4 3 2 1
Features Expert Accomplished Capable Beginner
Gives some new Gives no new
Quality of Very informative Somewhat
information but information and
Writing and well-organized informative and
poorly organized very poorly
organized
organized
So many spelling,
Virtually no spelling, Few spelling and A number of spelling, punctuation and
Grammar, Usage punctuation or punctuation punctuation or grammatical errors
& Mechanics grammatical errors errors, minor grammatical errors that it interferes
(2 or less) grammatical errors (6 with the meaning
(3 to 5) to 10) (more than 10)
Presents ideas in Presents ideas in a Ideas are vague
Ideas Ideas are too general
an original manner consistent or unclear
manner
Some organization;
Organization Strong and organized Organized No organization; lack
attempt at a
beginning/middle/end beginning/middle/end beginning/middle/end
beginning/middle/end
Writing shows
Writing shows Writing shows a Writing shows little
Understanding adequate
strong clear understanding understanding
understanding
understanding
Sophisticated use of
nouns and verbs Nouns and verbs Needs more nouns Little or no use of
Word Choice make essay and verbs nouns and verbs
make the essay very
informative informative
Sentence structure
Sentence Sentence structure Sentence structure No sense of
enhances meaning;
Structure is evident; sentences is limited; sentences sentence structure
flows throughout
mostly flow need to flow or flow
the piece
Total points: 36
Obtained points: 27
Observations: In my opinion, she developed the topic seen very well, she also related what was seen in the talk with
our career and that is a very important point to cover with respect to the essay. She used clear ideas and the main
idea of the essay is very understandable.